Molina leaving WCBU news post

We just don’t have enough good radio news people. Oh sure, there’s NPR but I’m talking about local news where you really only have two stations doing news anymore in the Peoria market: WMBD-AM 1470 and WCBU-FM 89.9.

At WCBU, they’re losing one of the good ones. Denise Molina, who’s been a reporter at the station for 10 years, is leaving for a job at the Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center over on the OSF campus.Denise Molina

If you’re a Morning Edition listener on WCBU, you’ve come to appreciate Molina’s calm and concise approach. I know I’m going to feel her absence at the various news conferences that media would attend. Denise is the consummate professional who also happens to be a really nice person.

But it’s not like she’s leaving the country. “I will be a writer/blog coordinator at Jump. I’ll be writing about the research and other things going on at the facility for the website, among other things,” she noted.

A graduate of Western Illinois University with a degree in radio broadcasting, she got her master’s degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield. Her first job out of grad school was as a news reporter and anchor for 1470 WMBD. She moved to WCBU in March 2005.

Denise Molina-Weiger, we’ll miss you on the air and around the press table!

Author: Steve Tarter

Born in England, raised in Boston, I'm a Midwestern transplant who's called Peoria home for the past 40 years. Married with four grown children, I enjoy journalism, film noir and radio drama. As the song goes, I like coffee; I like tea. Former president of the Apollo Theater in Downtown Peoria, I'm looking for a new raison d'etre.
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